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Harvard Desperate Underdog...
...last minute shifting of Chauncey to the first team shows conclusively that Harvard is the underdog today, and a desperate underdog at that. To start in an important game a Sophomore who has not even played in a minor contest is a most unusual decision. It shows that the coaches have great faith in Chauncey, who has been hampered by an injured ankle all fall...
Harvard faces Princeton today at 2 o'clock in the Palmer Memorial Stadium, with most of the 60,000 persons watching the game expecting the Tigers to triumph. It is not the first time that a Crimson eleven has gone into a Big Three game decidedly the underdog, and Captain Cheek's men, though the odds are against them, are determined to fight out a victory over the warriors of Nassau...
...clock tonight, 1500 students are expected to rock the building with their cheers for the University eleven. The first mass meeting of the year is expected to find the Harvard student body behind its team, undiscouraged by the fact that the Crimson is regarded as the underdog. A year ago Princeton filled that role and what Princeton did to Harvard will not soon be forgotten. Memories of that contest will evoke the spirit of revenge in tonight's meeting...
Then twenty-one years ago, I came to America. He went to England. Ever since he's been the family thorn, taking the side of every tatterdemalion, every underdog in England...